Bug#882151: apt is having trouble resolving dependencies of libgtk-3-dev in sid
On 19/11/17 18:03, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.6~alpha5
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Affects: libgtk-3-dev
>
> Recently, in pbuilder builds on my machine, apt has been having
> trouble figuring out how to install libgtk-3-dev. Debugging within a
> "pbuilder login" session shows:
>
> root@frobozz:/# apt install libgtk-3-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libgtk-3-dev : Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (= 3.22.26-1) but it is not
> going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> The strange thing is, if I try to dig into what the problem is with
> "apt install libgtk-3-dev gir1.2-gtk-3.0", then the installation is
> successful. So the package is actually installable, it's just that
> for some reason apt is having difficulties figuring out the
> installation set.
What architecture are you using? Are you running kfreebsd or hurd by any chance?
Using reportbug would give us that information fwiw...
Emilio
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